105.5 WDHA Talks With Ace Frehley - PART 4 - video Dailymotion

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105.5 WDHA's Terrie Carr talks with Ace Frehley and Steve Brown.

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00:00We are hanging out with the one and only Ace Frehley.

00:03The behind-the-scenes stuff.

00:04Steve Brown.

00:05And Steve Brown.

00:07It's so much fun because we're just getting all these great stories.

00:11We want to talk about guitar playing, though.

00:13I want to get into guitar playing because I said the sound,

00:15when I first heard the opening riff of 10,000 Volts

00:21and also Walking on the Moon,

00:23which I think is this fun, it's like a bluesy banger.

00:29It's got just great texture to it.

00:32Steve wrote the intro to Walking on the Moon.

00:34I love it.

00:35It's brilliant.

00:36I love it.

00:36And there was something about that guitar.

00:42And I thought to myself, wow, this is so Ace Frehley.

00:45And you talk to so many young artists who influenced you.

00:48Steve just said, Eddie Van Halen and Ace for him.

00:50And I talked to so many people that passed through here.

00:53And your name, Ace, comes up so much.

00:57So talk to me about this being a guitar record

01:00because this is a guitar record.

01:03And I want to talk to you guys about the construction of that.

01:07And was that always something that you envisioned

01:09or did it just sort of come out that way?

01:12Well, I think the most important thing was the fact that Ace and I

01:16are both guitar players first before we started writing songs.

01:20So the guitar, it's a part of our personality, part of our being.

01:26So my goal, and I said this to Ace.

01:28I said, Ace, we really need to focus on getting you these,

01:33getting back to your classic way you used to construct guitar solos.

01:37Yet it was spontaneous.

01:39But we also would go, I would let him play and play through the whole song.

01:44Go, hear that?

01:45That's great.

01:46We need to repeat that because Ace's solos back,

01:48especially on the Kiss songs, the great solos,

01:51he would repeat licks a lot.

01:52They were very thematic.

01:54So that was my goal.

01:55And what was so cool is I would have a guitar

01:58and Ace would have a guitar.

01:59He'd be plugged in and we'd just let the song rip.

02:02And I'd go to him while he's playing because he's very much,

02:05he loves to be spontaneous and raw.

02:07And I'd be going, no, dude, we got to make this.

02:10It's got to make sense.

02:11And then I would sit there and just because it was easy for him to understand,

02:15I'd go, dude, play the shock me lick.

02:18Play the thing you did in 100,000 years, you know, Kiss references.

02:22And then he would sometimes go, I don't want to play that.

02:24That's boring.

02:25And then 30 seconds later, he would play that lick.

02:28And I'd go, I got it.

02:29Because the other cool thing when you're recording in Pro Tools,

02:32you record everything.

02:33And so we would do 10 takes.

02:35And then I would sometimes put it together.

02:38But that was one of the really cool things about getting.

02:41And I think as a guitar player, and I think all the guitar fans out there,

02:44when they hear 10,000 Volts, they're going to say,

02:47this is one of Ace's greatest guitar playing records that he's done in,

02:52you know, 40 years, I think.

02:54What was that song that you wrote, the majority of it,

02:58the rhythm part, and you were happy with it?

03:02And I was happy with it, but I said, this song needs a bridge.

03:05You go, it doesn't need a bridge.

03:07Well, that was walking on the moon.

03:08That was walking on the moon.

03:09Yeah, I wrote the bridge for walking on the moon.

03:11He woke up.

03:11Because it didn't have a bridge.

03:13Right.

03:13He woke up at 3 o'clock in the morning.

03:15He recorded the vocals and recorded the guitar.

03:17Now, I had the duty as an engineer to cut and paste and chop it all in

03:21and make it work.

03:22But again, what he did by himself, singing and recording and playing,

03:27engineering in his own studio, we were able to use that.

03:30So that's the beauty.

03:31And again, recording at his studio in Sparta

03:34and my studio in Ringwood, New Jersey,

03:36it was just a marriage made in heaven.

03:38It was the perfect working environment.

03:39And we recorded the song Blinded, right?

03:42Came out great.

03:44So, 7 o'clock in the morning, you know,

03:49you wake up and you're like half asleep, half awake.

03:51A lot of times they get creative ideas at that juncture.

03:54I called up Steve and I go, why don't we use, open up the song with the chorus,

04:01a cappella, just to give another, you know, flavor to the record.

04:06Yeah.

04:06And he did it quickly.

04:08He says, let me just try it right now.

04:10Because he works on, he's such a quick engineer at editing on Pro Tools

04:15because he's been doing it for 30 years.

04:17And he called me back and he goes, amazing.

04:20Amazing.

04:20Yeah, we went for like, you know, I told him, I said, it's like, you know,

04:23it's like Kansas, carry on your wayward son,

04:25or like you give love a bad name.

04:27But I said that to Ace and he goes, I love Bon Jovi.

04:30That's perfect.

04:31Yeah.

04:31It was killer.

04:31And it was unique because we also wanted to make each song have its own

04:35unique thing.

04:36And like the song Constantly Cute, which is unique because we have Ace's

04:41fiancee, Lara, who sings background vocals.

04:43Singing background, right?

04:44And I'll tell you the story behind the title.

04:46Lara's talking to me.

04:47We were looking at photographs of me from the 70s to now.

04:52And, you know, I was saying, you know, I'm starting to look a little old,

04:56you know.

04:57I don't know if it's time for another facelift or what.

04:59She goes, forget about it.

05:01She goes, you're constantly cute.

05:03And then she starts, she continues to talk.

05:05I go, oh, Constantly Cute.

05:08That is a song title.

05:09And there you go.

05:10I call up Steve.

05:11I go, we got to write a song Constantly Cute.

05:13That's awesome.

05:14One day.

05:15Yeah, that's right.

05:16I love, and watching the two of you together, you know,

05:20and this is what I love the most.

05:22It's not just what came out of the record,

05:24but it's how excited you are and how excited you are.

05:28I mean, that's what music is all about.

05:29It's that passion of putting out great music.

05:34Again, Tara, this is, at 72 years old, this is a guy who has kind of been reborn musically on this record.

05:42This is his most successful record, Monarch, the label Monarch Heavy, who's putting it out.

05:47They've told me and Ace, you know, we're already at millions of streams, the views on the video.

05:52To be able to have this kind of success, it's rejuvenated him.

05:55And much like, if you listen to the new Rolling Stones record, those guys are 80 years old,

06:00and they made the best record that they've made in 40 years.

06:02I love that record.

06:03Hackney, Diamonds, Dynamite.

06:05Dynamite, Dynamite.

06:06And I, you know, put that up.

06:08Age is irrelevant here.

06:09I picked the right line of work, because I can do this until I'm 80.

06:13You can do this forever, Ace.

06:16I just had a physical from my doctor.

06:19This is a funny story.

06:20And he starts laughing in the office.

06:22He's going over my blood work.

06:24He goes, Ace, for the last three years, your blood work has gotten progressively better.

06:29You're the only patient I have that's aging in reverse.

06:33Yes!

06:33We need that!

06:34It's because he's electrified.

06:36He's full of 10,000 volts all the time.

06:39All right, I'm going to play.

06:40We got to do a little New York groove.

06:42Then I'm going to come back.

06:43I want to talk about the Carteret Pack show.

06:44Don't let me forget, because I want everybody to get their tickets.

06:48Ed's out.

06:48We're hanging out with Ace.

06:50It's a great way to spend a Wednesday.

06:53We're going to get him back here every Wednesday.

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